Armstrong Quote by Duke Ellington

If anybody was Mr. Jazz it was Louis Armstrong. He was the epitome of jazz and always will be. He is what I call…

— Duke Ellington

He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz.

— Oscar Peterson

When I play live in restaurants and cafes, I don't play my own stuff. I play jazz and 'American Songbook' standards, and I'll fuse…

— Darren Criss

I love jazz because it's so American; you know it's our Only Original Art Form. It just goes against the greed of corporate America…

— Bernie Sanders

Blues and jazz is our American music.

— Leslie Uggams

In the Bay Area, there was a resurgence of Dixieland jazz in the '40s - there was the Frisco Jazz Band, and Lu Watters…

— Clint Eastwood

Don't clap I'm not a jazz band for Christ's sake.

— Dylan Moran

When I was growing up, in L.A., I went to these schools, Fairfax High School, Bancroft Junior High School, and they had great music…

— Flea

The jazz band's chief stimulus, of course, was the rise of the negro 'blues' and their exploitation by the negro song-writer, W. C. Handy.

— Bix Beiderbecke

It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The church we grew up playing at was not one of those churches known for its music, but it was just this all-around energy…

— Thundercat

I've played drums since I was 15. My sisters and I all played instruments. I kind of started with piano and then I actually…

— Miles Teller